Below is a list of Safe Searching Resources. To access these resources you must have the correct login and password information from yourSafe Searching Resources handout. If you don't have this handout stop by the LMC to get a copy.
Keywords to search on:
Salem Witch Trials
Salem Witch Hunt(s)
Witchcraft
Salem
Specific names of Crucible characters, e.g., Cotton Mather, Sarah Good, John Proctor, etc.
Puritans
McCarthy
McCarthyism
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
Blacklist (to be blacklisted)
Red Scare
Hollywood Ten
Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations
FREE/Open Web Sites
These resources do not require logins or passwords.
Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for FREE! After you type in a search term you will get results but to see only FREE titles you must use the Free Google eBooks link in the left hand navigation to narrow your results to FREE titles.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Features of Google Scholar
Search diverse sources from one convenient place
Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research
The Crucible characters analyzed by Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley Ph.D. and Masters students.
From Discovery Education this is an amazing web site! Good researchers will pay close attention to the navigation options at the bottom of the pages to find even more veins of information.
Excellent resource for primary source documents including:
Court Transcripts
Personal Letters
Historical Maps
Notable People
From National Geographic this site is an entertaining glimpse of the hysteria surrounding the events of the Salem Witch Trials.
This website is being developed jointly by Historic Northampton and the Center for Computer Based Instructional Technology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Safe Searching Resources
Below is a list of Safe Searching Resources. To access these resources you must have the correct login and password information from your Safe Searching Resources handout. If you don't have this handout stop by the LMC to get a copy.
Keywords to search on:
Salem Witch Trials
Salem Witch Hunt(s)
Salem
Specific names of Crucible characters, e.g., Cotton Mather, Sarah Good, John Proctor, etc.
Puritans
McCarthy
McCarthyism
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
Blacklist (to be blacklisted)
Red Scare
Hollywood Ten
Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations
FREE/Open Web Sites
These resources do not require logins or passwords.
HINT:
Use Directories to search for specific information on people.
Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for FREE! After you type in a search term you will get results but to see only FREE titles you must use the Free Google eBooks link in the left hand navigation to narrow your results to FREE titles.
Use the Advanced Search feature to locate content from magazines.
Sample ebook on Salem Witch Trials
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Features of Google Scholar
Search diverse sources from one convenient place
Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research
The Crucible characters analyzed by Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley Ph.D. and Masters students.
Shmoop guide to The Crucible characters
Originally published in 1867, this is a very detailed account of the life in Salem, the events leading up to the actual trials, and the trials.
Salem Witch Trials--The World Behind the Hysteria
From Discovery Education this is an amazing web site! Good researchers will pay close attention to the navigation options at the bottom of the pages to find even more veins of information.
Excellent resource for primary source documents including:
Court Transcripts
Personal Letters
Historical Maps
Notable People
From National Geographic this site is an entertaining glimpse of the hysteria surrounding the events of the Salem Witch Trials.
The Goody Parsons Educational Web Site
This website is being developed jointly by Historic Northampton and the Center for Computer Based Instructional Technology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.University of Missouri-Kansas City--Famous Trials
Links to primary source documents and images.
Lee's Summit High School Crucible Pathfinder
Excellent Salem Witch Trials and Puritan life resources and links to information on Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism.
Salem Witch Trials City Guide
Spooky time line recounting events (found by A.Teta--MS Wilkins)
Chronology of Events
http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/chronology.shtml
Crucible character analysis--not biographical but literary analysis
http://www.shmoop.com/crucible/characters.html
Documents and articles from the National Archives:
Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman
**Prelude to McCarthyism: The Making of a Blacklist**
FREE Citation Builders
FREE websites that will create MLA (Modern Language Association) citations for research papers.
Whether you are quoting a source directly or paraphrasing from a source you MUST cite your source.
KnightCite
NoodleBib (MLA)
EasyBib
Son of Citation Machine
bibme